lj strikeout '07/warriors for innocence

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If your flist hasn't already exploded about lj's spree of deleting journals based on their interests, go take a look over here.

There's also protest-meme going around where you remove all your interests and replace them with simply 'freedom' or 'freedom of speech' in addition to signing the petition linked to in that entry.

The whole mess has even made it onto Fandom Wank.

Personally, I'm curious. Do people with Paid Accounts get refunds on their remaining time if their journals are deleted/suspended for completely ridiculous reasons? I don't think that I have anything triggering in my interests, but if mine goes under, you can bet that I'm going to inquire about the logistics of this.

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[xinda.livejournal.com]

There's no refunds. I went through looking/skimming their TOS to say that they can delete with or without warning and anyone with paid accounts do not get a refund.

There's rumour that some places with "questionable" icons are also being removed as well. I'm not sure, though, if their INTERESTS started it and THEN their icons helped. I temporarily removed my chibi-love icons because really, I would be highly POed if my journal was deleted for something that's purely innocent-cute. (And sometimes frightening).

If you see the latest "news" section on LJ there's about 50 pages worth of people leaving messages in hopes of Livejournal giving us some feedback/news on what they're doing (and how they plan on fixing those journals that are innocent of any real crime). There's also people pointing out that they had warned LJ of specific journals/communities that were in fact a part of what should have been deleted and received a "sorry, can't do anything," sort of response. Now, they're deleting without research.

This makes me sad, indeed.

Oh yes, another rumour (no idea if it's been proven true or false yet) is that there is spyware/virus/trojans and such on the website WFI.

[daemonsadvocate.livejournal.com]

What does WFI stand for?

[xinda.livejournal.com]

Warriors for Innocence. A website of a few people that are out to stop all "child predators" online -- they are not (so far) associated with any legal group, they have no FAQ/TOS/Mission Statement (so I hear) and are with the "you're either with us or against us" -- I think they don't care much whether it's fictional or real.

[daemonsadvocate.livejournal.com]

*blush* Cheers.